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Soft Matter @softmatter.rsc.org · 27/04/2026

📢FINAL CALL to nominate for the 2026 Soft Matter Lectureship!📢 ‼️Deadline this Thursday- 30 April 2026 Please do not miss your chance to nominate an early career researcher! Learn more about the award & how to nominate: lnkd.in/eMhN7bEW

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Soft Matter @softmatter.rsc.org · 21/04/2026

📢Last chance to nominate for the 2026 Soft Matter Lectureship!📢 Do not miss your chance to nominate an early career researcher who has made major contributions to soft matter research! ‼️Deadline: 30th April 2026 Learn more about the award and how to nominate: lnkd.in/eMhN7bEW

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Soft Matter @softmatter.rsc.org · 14/04/2026

📢The nomination deadline for the 2026 Soft Matter Lectureship is fast approaching! ‼️Deadline: 30th April 2026 Don't miss your chance to nominate an early career researcher who has made major contributions to soft matter research. Learn more about the award: lnkd.in/eMhN7bEW

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Soft Matter @softmatter.rsc.org · 08/04/2026

Nominations for the 2026 Soft Matter Lectureship are open until the end of April! This annual award recognises an early career researcher who has made major contributions to soft matter research. Learn more about the award, including guidelines for nominators and candidates 👉 lnkd.in/eMhN7bEW

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Soft Matter @softmatter.rsc.org · 16/02/2026

Are you working in the area of soft material mechanics? Submissions are now open for our new collection celebrating the pioneering contributions of Professor Chung-Yuen Hui to the field Submission deadline: 31st August 2026 Find out more about the collection here: rsc.li/4kBJgNo #ChemSky

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Soft Matter @softmatter.rsc.org · 11/12/2025

Don't miss this #OA article in Soft Matter, part of our Open Access Spotlight collection! 'Geometric frustration in twist-bend nematic droplets' by Joseph Pollard and Richard Morris @r-g-morris.bsky.social (UNSW, Australia) 🔗https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2025/sm/d5sm00530b

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Soft Matter @softmatter.rsc.org · 07/11/2025

...Asymmetric bilayer membranes, molecular dynamics simulations of lipid bilayers and nanovesicles, production of giant vesicles using microfluidics, & more! Learn more about the collection, including how to submit, here 👉 www.rsc.org/publishing/j...

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Soft Matter @softmatter.rsc.org · 24/10/2025

Check out the inside front cover article for issue 41! 'Triacylglycerols affect the water content and cohesive strength of collagen fibrils' led by Martin Dehnert & Robert Magerle et al (Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany) 🔗rsc.li/3WpAV4e #SoftMatter #ChemSky #🧪

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Soft Matter @softmatter.rsc.org · 24/10/2025

Don't miss the front cover article for issue 41! 'Emergence and evolution of a particulate network during gelation and coarsening of attractive #colloids' by Paniz Haghighi, Mohammad Nabizadeh & Safa Jamali (Northeastern University, USA) 🔗rsc.li/3WmmJZS #ChemSky #SoftMatter

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Soft Matter @softmatter.rsc.org · 06/10/2025

Nominations for the 2026 Soft Matter Lectureship are now open! This annual award recognises early career researchers who have made major contributions to soft matter research. Find out more, including how to nominate, on our webpage 👉 www.rsc.org/standards-an...

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Soft Matter @softmatter.rsc.org · 23/09/2025

We're delighted to announce that Ankur Gupta has been selected as the recipient of the 2025 Soft Matter Lectureship! This award honours an early-career researcher for their contributions to the soft matter field. Learn more about Ankur and his research on our blog 👉 blogs.rsc.org/sm/2025/09/1...

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Soft Matter @softmatter.rsc.org · 19/09/2025

Check out this front cover artwork celebrating the journal's 20th anniversary! 'Turbulent-like flows in quasi two-dimensional dense suspensions of motile colloids' by Rui Luo, Alexey Snezhko & Petia Vlahovska is #OA! 🔗https://rsc.li/4mkWqh3 Explore our milestone collection: rsc.li/3VKmhV3

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Soft Matter @softmatter.rsc.org · 03/09/2025

Check out the #OA Perspective, 'Materials science underpinnings of micro and nanoplastics', by our AEs Guruswamy Kumaraswamy & Sanat Kumar et al! 🔗rsc.li/4nbaYRh Guru & Sanat are Guest Editors of the 'Underpinnings of Micro- and Nanoplastics' themed collection with Tom McDonald: rsc.li/3I5vtQi #🧪

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Soft Matter @softmatter.rsc.org · 29/08/2025

Check out this #OA work, 'Photodegradation-driven microparticle release from commercial plastic water bottles' led by Alexander Laskin et al! 🔗https://rsc.li/3JGXVZg This work is part of Soft Matter's growing 'Underpinnings of Micro- and Nanoplastics' collection: rsc.li/4g03X3r

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Soft Matter @softmatter.rsc.org · 27/08/2025

Don't miss this front cover article in celebration of Soft Matter's 20th Anniversary! Martin Reifarth's review on microscale patterning via microcontact printing is #OA 🔗rsc.li/4oUs5Zd Read Soft Matter's 20th Anniversary collection for free until December 31st!🎈https://rsc.li/46byQys #ChemSky #🧪

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Soft Matter @softmatter.rsc.org · 20/08/2025

We are pleased to present the themed collection Celebrating the 60th birthday and achievements of Professor Ulli Steiner pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/... All papers are FREE to read until 30 December 2025! Read the Editorial introducing the collection doi.org/10.1039/D5SM... 🧪 #Interfaces #Materials

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Soft Matter @softmatter.rsc.org · 19/08/2025

Congratulations to Sujit Datta who officially received the Soft Matter Lectureship 2024 award before giving his talk on living gels formed by bacteria growing in complex fluids! Find out more about our winner and the Lectureship award: lnkd.in/eVXXQH6n #ChemSky #🧪

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Soft Matter @softmatter.rsc.org · 15/08/2025

Check out the cover article for Soft Matter Issue 32! 'Oxygen deficiency drives drastic pattern transition in algal bioconvection', by Azam Gholami et al (New York University Abu Dhabi, Lewis & Clark College) 🔗https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2025/sm/d5sm00451a

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Soft Matter @softmatter.rsc.org · 13/08/2025

We have now published our 'Outstanding Reviewers for Soft Matter in 2024' Editorial! You can read the Editorial here: doi.org/10.1039/D5SM... Thank you to all of our reviewers for helping to preserve quality and integrity in the Soft Matter literature. 🧪 #SoftMatter

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Soft Matter @softmatter.rsc.org · 12/08/2025

Our 2024 Lectureship winner Sujit Datta will be formally presented with his award prior to his talk at ACS next week! Where: Rock Creek Salon A (The Westin DC Downtown), USA When: 18/08/25, 2-2:50 pm (GMT-4) Event details: lnkd.in/eKGCZ35N Find out more about Sujit Datta: lnkd.in/eVXXQH6n

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Soft Matter @softmatter.rsc.org · 18/07/2025

We were delighted to sponsor the plenary talk given by AB Member Emanuela Del Gado at #StatPhys29 in Florence. AE Emanuela Zaccarelli also attended and introduced the journal & our exciting 20th anniversary collection! Read the collection here: rsc.li/soft-matter-20 Free to access until 31/12/25!

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Soft Matter @softmatter.rsc.org · 20/06/2025

Don't miss Soft Matter cover article, 'Scalability of a graph neural network in accurate prediction of frictional contact networks in suspensions', showcasing machine learning research from Professor Abhinendra Singh’s M2MvM Laboratory (@asingh-case.bsky.social‬) #ChemSky #OA

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Soft Matter @softmatter.rsc.org · 23/05/2025

Soft Matter's 20th anniversary was recently celebrated at the 'Advances in supramolecular gels' Faraday Discussion in Glasgow! Activities included a drinks reception & cake-cutting by former EiC Professor Darrin Pochan Many congratulations to Geoffrey Groslambert and the other poster award winners!

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Soft Matter @softmatter.rsc.org · 17/04/2025

Read the first article in our 'Underpinnings of Micro- and Nanoplastics' collection! 'Mechanism of microplastic and nanoplastic emission from tire wear' (rsc.li/3RRPnQ3) is authored by Guest Editors Guruswamy Kumaraswamy & Sanat Kumar et al 🌟 Find out more about the collection: blogs.rsc.org/sm/

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Soft Matter @softmatter.rsc.org · 11/04/2025

Our themed collection on Micro- and Nanoplastics is still open for submissions! 🧪 Guest edited by Guruswamy Kumaraswamy, Sanat Kumar & Tom McDonald Deadline: 31st August 2025 Find out more about the collection: blogs.rsc.org/sm/ #ChemSky

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Soft Matter @softmatter.rsc.org · 28/03/2025

📢Don't miss your opportunity to nominate an early career scientist for the 2025 Soft Matter Lectureship!📢 This award is given to an early-stage career scientist who has made significant contributions to the soft matter field Learn more about the nomination process 👉 www.rsc.org/journals-boo...

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Soft Matter @softmatter.rsc.org · 25/03/2025

Read the latest HOT articles here now! Free to access until 30th April! Now featuring work by Davi Lazzari and Peter Keim Read the full collection of HOT articles here 👇 rsc.li/sm-hot-artic...

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Soft Matter @softmatter.rsc.org · 21/03/2025

Thank you to everyone who joined the APS 2025 Living Soft Matter session supported by @softmatter.rsc.org! Below are the speakers and chair: @chemhurst.bsky.social, Kyle Bishop, Alfred Crosby, Anđela Šarić, Qian Chen and @oasaleh.bsky.social We look forward to seeing you at future events!

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Soft Matter @softmatter.rsc.org · 11/03/2025

📣 Soft Matter is sponsoring some activities at #APSSummit25 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the journal. Our Editor-in-Chief @aljcrosby.bsky.social & RSC colleagues @chemhurst.bsky.social and Merlin Fox will be at the event - please come and say hello! 👋 #ChemSky #PhysicsSky #softmatter

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Soft Matter @softmatter.rsc.org · 07/03/2025

📣 Who will you nominate for the 2025 Soft Matter Lectureship? Nominate an early-career researcher making significant contributions to the soft matter field. Deadline 30th April 2025. Find out more ➡️ rsc.li/SMlec25

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